Explaining the square root of i in the most pleasant way – The Joy of Mathematics
Ok mathematics people, how is it?
My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers While badging for students shows real promise, a partnership between the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and VIF International Education demonstrates that in the short run the best approach to scaling digital badging is not to focus on students, but on their teachers….
Source: Mr. Nussbaum – Educational Games, Activities, Resources for Kids Ages 5-14 and Teacher Tools. If you teach grades 1-6, then check out Mr. Nussbaum’s website. There are tons of resources available for free and also a subscription model. What makes Mr. Nussbaum’s website pretty cool is that he offers not only online activities, but…
This book reaffirms what I have speculated for a while; the majority of schools and districts gauge the effectiveness of professional development with nothing more than teacher surveys. As Guskey informs the reader, “Sadly, the bulk of professional development today is evaluated only at Level 1 [participant reaction], if at all. Of the rest, the…
Source: Maps Mania: The Tower of Pisa in 3D Sometimes I stumble upon sites that feed my need for information, and This is how the tower of Pisa was prevented from falling scratches that itch. First things first, if you don’t read Italian, you’ll want to turn on translation in Chrome to your location. The…
Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use, download here! Source: Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute I’ve…
There are times when you are using a Google Sheet, such as collecting information in a form, where you would like highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a column. Google Sheets offers conditional formatting, which gives you the ability to change the formatting of a cell based on the contents of the cell. For…